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  CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Johannes Bessarion
Bessarion a follower of Plato, did not prevent him from perceiving the many points of contact between the two philosophers, and, during the revival of ancient learning, constantly defending the harmonizing of the two systems; he criticized the unrestrained partisanship of his master quite as much as that of Michael Apostolius.
Bessarion once more as legate to the King of France, the Duke of Burgundy, and the King of England to settle the discords which had arisen between the first two, and to induce the last-mentioned to join in the great expedition against the enemy of Christianity.
Bessarion, in turn, enumerates the faults of translation and the errors in the commentary of George.
www.newadvent.org /cathen/02527b.htm   (1617 words)

  
 Cardinal Bessarion, Letter of recommendation for Pietro del Sacco of Verona | Special Collections | Bryn Mawr College ...
Cardinal Bessarion, Letter recommending the physician Pietro del Sacco of Verona for nomination to the chair of medicine at the University of Bologna.
Written and signed by the humanist Niccolo Perotti who served as Bessarion's secretary during this period.
Written in Italy in 1453, possibly while Bessarion and Perotti were in Rome.
www.brynmawr.edu /library/speccoll/guides/gordanms155.shtml   (205 words)

  
 Bessarion
On display is a collection of letters and orations Bessarion composed in the hope of stirring the princes of Europe to action against the Turks.
Bessarion always intended them to be directly relevent to contemporary issues.
The parallel to the contemporary Turkish threat was exact, to Bessarion's mind, and his marginal notes, shown here, emphasize the point.
www.ibiblio.org /expo/vatican.exhibit/exhibit/c-humanism/Bessarion.html   (1062 words)

  
 Regiomontanus' 1462 astrolabe for Cardinal Bessarion and its secrets
Regiomontanus' 1462 astrolabe for Cardinal Bessarion and its secrets
There is a connection between the Byzantine astro­labe made for Sergios in 1062, the astro­labe that Regio­montanus gave to Cardinal Bessarion in 1462, and "The Flagellation of Christ" by Piero della Francesca.
For a full account see David King, Astrolabes and Angels, Epigrams and Enigmas – From Regiomontanus' Acrostic for Cardinal Bessarion to Piero della Francesca's "Flagellation of Christ", Stuttgart: Franz Steiner, to appear in  2007.
web.uni-frankfurt.de /fb13/ign/Code.htm   (119 words)

  
 Johannes Bessarion -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Johannes Bessarion -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article
Vexation at an insult offered him by Louis is said to have hastened his death, which took place on November 19 1472, at (A battle between the French and an alliance of Spaniards and Swiss and Venetians in 1512) Ravenna.
(1893); on Bessarion at the councils of Ferrara and Florence, A Sadov, Bessarion de Nicée (1883); on his philosophy, monograph by A Kandelos (in Greek, Athens, 1888); most of his works are in (additional info and facts about Migne) Migne, Patrologia Graeca, clxi.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/j/jo/johannes_bessarion.htm   (334 words)

  
 AllRefer.com - Bessarion (Roman Catholic And Orthodox Churches: General Biography) - Encyclopedia
AllRefer.com - Bessarion (Roman Catholic And Orthodox Churches: General Biography) - Encyclopedia
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Bessarion, Roman Catholic And Orthodox Churches: General Biographies
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 Renaissance [Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy]
Pope Nicholas V earnestly fostered the new movement and laid the foundation of the great Vatican collection.
Cardinal Bessarion presided over the formation of the Library of St. Mark at Venice.
Individual scholars went about looking for manuscripts of lost authors, for coins, medals; for anything that could give a better knowledge of classical antiquity.
www.iep.utm.edu /r/renaiss.htm   (696 words)

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